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Octal Number System | Octal to Decimal Binary & Hexadecimal Conversion

The Octal Number System is another type of computer and digital base number system. Octal Number System is very similar in principle to the previous hexadecimal numbering system except that in Octal, a binary number is divided up into groups of only 3 bits, with each group or set of bits having a distinct value… Read More »

COMPUTER CODING SYSTEM

Many different coding systems are used to represent data today. What is the importance of coding systems? To represent numeric, alphabetic, and special characters in a computer’s internal storage and on magnetic media, we must use some sort of coding system. In computers, the code is made up of fixed size groups of binary positions.… Read More »